On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:58:56AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I just discovered the oldstable distribution. What are the implications > > of this? For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer) > > which I find is in the oldstable distribution but not in Sarge. > > >From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt : > > [Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:17:41 -0500] [ftpmaster: Daniel Silverstone] > Removed the following packages from unstable: > > cbb | 1:0.8.1-5.1 | source, all > Closed bugs: 166249 > > ------------------- Reason ------------------- > RoQA; Orphaned for over a year. OOD. wrt. upstream. Upstream > inactive. > ---------------------------------------------- > > Basically, this means the package was quite dead and no one was > interested in keeping it alive, so it was removed. > > If the dependencies are still met in sarge, you could probably continue > using the woody (oldstable) version with sarge. > > > Does this mean I should search for an alternate package? Is there a > > good one? I found gnofin and gnucash in Sarge. I don't need double > > entry bookkeeping and gnofin seems to lack the report generation > > features of cbb. What's the plan? > > I would try to find a suitable replacement, but I'm not familiar enough > with any accounting tools to make a recommendation.
Thanks. I was afraid this would be the answer. I have confirmed that cbb still works with Sarge but I am surprised I did not receive a deluge of answers recommending alternatives. I migrated to cbb several years ago after a very unhappy experience with TurboTax (an hence Quicken). I thought there might be many alternatives but apt-cache search checkbook brought up only two. An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for my own use what would be its lifetime? I have heard it argued that C (and I assume gcc) is here forever as it is the preferred language for writing operating systems. I am a retired physicist and in my career I wrote many standalone programs for my own use in a variety of languages, the largest in Turbo Pascal. I could tackle Perl and tk for cbb or try Python or some other language but if I do anything I want the result to live and work happily on my Debian based computer with minimal need for re-writes to accomodate upgrades. Incidently, when I ran fetchmail and mutt I found your response but not my original posting. I'm sure I didn't delete the original. I wonder where it went? Tom George > > -- > Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to > pretend to like each other. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
